Few travellers will have the chance to explore Canada from coast to coast to coast to witness the country’s raw beauty. This winter, however, locals and visitors have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the vastness of Canada’s
landscapes — in particular, mountain landscapes — from the
artist’s perspective. To celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial
anniversary of confederation, the Audain Art Museum features
Stone and Sky: Canada’s Mountain Landscape until Feb. 26,
2018. The collection of artworks is a special exhibition that
explores Canada’s alpine landscapes through photographs,
watercolours, drawings, paintings and prints.

With more than 100 works of art on display, produced over the
past 150 years, the exhibition showcases remarkable diversity
in perspective, both historically and in the alpine landscapes
themselves. While developing the exhibition, Darrin Martens,
Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky, chief curator, asked the
question, “How have artists changed their perspectives, and
how have they depicted this alpine landscape?” Martens
traversed the country, seeking artworks that represent Canada’s
myriad mountainous regions, from the Coast Mountains where
Whistler is located to the famed Rockies of the West to the
remote mountains in the north in Nunavut and the Northwest
Territories, and finally to the older, less dramatic mountains of
eastern Canada.